Does the "Not Spam" button really do anything?

Controlling Spam?

• Dear Lucee. Thanks for your answer, BUT In my previous question I wasn't clear enough. The unwanted spam is in my BULK mail but there is no way to identify it as Spam. There is no button for Spam for bulk mail e-mails. I would like to cut down on them as I'm sure their presence slows down the whole system. Also it is not true that spam gets into the Inbox because it is in my mailbox. The few that sneak in have no relation to anything I ever sent or received.

• Answer:

  You can forward such email to [email protected] I have set up a filter to collect all the mail I WANT into a "keep" folder. I read that email first, since it's from addresses on my list. You will still need to look at your inbox because there'll always be a chance someone you want to get email from is not on your list. I wuoldn't bother setting up a second filter to keep out bad email, because that would be a third folder you would need to check because it will sometimes catch your friends' emails. Yahoo lets you right click on email messages and identify them as spam. I've never known of Yahoo stopping any email I wanted. With Outlook you can right click on an email message and look at the properties. Then you can look at the "source". That will let you look at a questionable email without actually opening it. Opening some emails can activate pictures and things they've designed to reach back to their web sites to save information like your email address. For this reason I would turn off features in your email that let you "preview" messages, because that preview can get information from the attackers web site. Most people consider bulk email to be spam. Don't trust any bulk email or spam. If you respond to them in any way they make a profit from it and will continue.